Selected Legal Information Resources
Legal History
Forum Historiae Juris
(Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin, Germany)
The Timetable of World Legal History
Featuring information ranging from the Trial of Socrates to Napoleonic Code
& The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Documents for American Legal History
English Legal History
Materials
Judicial Institutions
United States Supreme Court
Canadian Supreme Court / Cour Suprême du
canada
General Information
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources
for International Law
Worldwide Treaties and International
Law
European International Law Treaties
Le
Statut de la Commission du droit international de l'ONU
Selected links by Country
Australia
Monash University
Law Library (Melbourne) - Foreign and International Law
Extensive links to websites concerning treaties and conventions, courts and
tribunals, Middle East peace process, human rights, international criminal law,
international trade and finance, country information (country descriptions,
reports and legal situations), and international trade and finance law.
Austria
University of Vienna -
KONTERM
Web page of the Institute of International Law and International Relations.
In English and German.
Canada
Canadian Council on
International Law
Key Resources on the Internet for International Law Research
Juridex Quebec - Droit international
public
Recherche par sujets - Droit international public. In French.
McGill University
- International Law Society
International Law Society/la Société de droit international includes links to
website concerning human rights, international business and international law.
In English and French.
Germany
Max Planck Institute for Comparative
and International Law (Heidelberg)
Provides access to its on-line catalogue (OPAC), including "World Court
Digest" (International Court of Justice) and a compilation of relevant
links to public international law, international organizations, European law
and national legal systems.
Italy
University of Bologna:
Research Guide to International Law
As International Law is concerned, it is one of the largest collections put
on the Net, especially useful for searching for materials in the fields of Conflict
of Law, Comparative Law, European Law and International Relations.
Netherlands
The Hague Academy of International Law
Leiden University - Faculty
of Law - Library - Foreign Law
Links to Dutch law, the European Union and EDC's (European Documentation Centres),
the United Nations and UNDL's (UN Depository Libraries), other international
organizations as well as national and international laws.
T.M.C. Asser Institute
The T.M.C. Asser Institute serves to promote free and independent scholarly
research. The Institute operates as an academic joint venture, through which
research, education and documentation is collectively sustained and enhanced
in the Netherlands. It offers, by subject and in alphabetical order, a useful
list of public international legal resources on the Internet.
University of Limburg -
Doddel Server - International Law
Research concerning the role of the Committee Against Torture in the development
of the Convention Against Torture. This research is part of the project Universality
of Human Rights of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights. Also includes useful
links.
Switzerland
Geneva University Institute for
Postgraduate Studies (IUHEI)
Information about links to affiliated institutions.
United Kingdom
Lauterpacht Research Centre
for International Law
From the University of Cambridge, includes a selection of law links as well
as links to outstanding legal libraries on the Web.
United States
American Society of International Law
Includes links to information sources on the Internet that are of interest and
use to international lawyers; The ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International
Law, plus Guides to electronic sources in 6 areas: the United Nations Treaties,
Human Rights, Environmental Law, International Criminal Law, and Lists; Brief
essays on current topics by international law experts.
FindLaw - International
Law
Exhaustive links to topics in international law from the Web's foremost legal
search engine.
Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, Multilaterals Project.
The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project at the Fletcher
School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make
available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
Although the vast majority of texts date from the second half of this century,
the collection also includes historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia
to the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Harvard Law School Library
- International Legal Studies
Provides general information, including research guides and annotated Web links.
Hieros Gamos International Law
It deals only with the principal international documents, treaties and governmental
agencies.
IANWeb Resources - International
Law
International Affairs Network maintains links to legal resources and annotates
these links with information drawn from the providers.
Indiana University School
of Law - World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law: Foreign and International Law
It contains a very extensive subject list in alphabetical order, of national
as well as public international legal sites in the World Wide Web.
New York University Law
Library - Foreign and International Materials
Links to Search Engines, Directories and Indexes, Virtual Libraries, Bankruptcy,
Banking Laws, Information about Citing Electronic Information, Copyright, Constitutions,
the Council of Europe, Legal Dictionaries, Environmental Law, the European Union,
the European Commission, Foreign Materials - Collections, Foreign Materials
- By Jurisdiction, Human Rights, the Inter-American Database, International
Criminal Law, International Materials, International Organizations, Patents
and Trademarks, and the United Nations
Washburn University
School of Law - Foreign and International Law Web
Provides links to primary foreign and international legal resources, research
aids, and sites useful in conducting research in these areas of law.
United States House of Representatives
Internet Law Library: Treaties and International Law
Treaties, conventions and other international instruments, case decisions, secondary
international legal sources, etc., in full text.
University of Chicago
Library Information System - Foreign and International Law
Legal research on international law issues using the Internet by Lyonette Louis-Jacques,
Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Law School. Includes full texts of treaties and conventions, as well as links
to websites concerning comparative law and country reports, International Organizations,
human rights, war crimes, international trade, intellectual property, and extensive
links to bibliographies and full-text editions of international legal journals
on the Web
PUBLIC
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Brief Guide to Public international
Law Research
Conducting Research
in Public International Law: an Introduction to the Information Sources
(University of Utrecht)
Public International Law/Francis
Auburn (Perth)
These Public International Law Pages assemble a Collection of WWW links related
to International Law Topics. The aim is to present as Many Major and Topical
Sources of International Law Resources of Relevance on the Web as possible.
University of Western Australia
Collection of Links
These Public International Law Pages assemble a Collection of more than 900
internet links related to International Law Topics
Brief Guide to Public international law
International Criminal Court, Draft Statute (NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court)
La place du consentement des Etats dans le règlement juridictionel des différends
INTERNATIONAL
TRIBUNALS
ICTR-ICTY Tribunal Watch
(U. of Buffalo)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The Court of Justice of the European Communities
Home Page on the International Criminal
Court
Canada and the International Criminal Court (Government of Canada site)
International
Court of Justice
International Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea
International Criminal Court
European Court of Human Rights
Inter-American Court
of Human Rights
World
Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Appellate Body:
Central American Court of Justice (Corte Centroamericana
de Justicia)
Court of Justice of the Andean Community
(Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina)
Court of Justice of the European
Communities
COMESA Court of Justice
TRIALS
Famous
Trials
(from 19th Century to today) by Doug Linder
Legacy of the
Nuremberg War Crime Trial
Avocat sans Frontières-Belgium
Quatres Rwandais en procès d'assises
Minutes
of the Opening Session of the Trial of the Major War Criminals
18 October 1945
Indictment of the International Military Tribunal in the case of the Trial of
the Major War Criminals, 1945
Part I
Part II
Part III
MUNICIPAL
LAW & COMPARATIVE LAW
Foreign Law Collections
A comprehensive A - Z list of law collections worldwide on the Web.
International Constitutional
Law
India: Law Information Center
Includes information on Human Rights, Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court
Bar Association, Parliament
Public Law Research Institute U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Centre de recherche en droit public Université de Montréal
The Public Law Project UK Registred Charity
Textes
choisis du droit public par les autorités féderales
de la Confederation suisse
CRIMINAL
LAW & CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
The 'Lectric Law Library Lawcopedia'
on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Emory Law Library
Collection of Sites on Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure
HUMANITARIAN LAW
International
Committee of the Red Cross
Council of Europe: Human
Rights Web
Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflicts
CASE
LAW
The International Court
of justice/La Cour Internationale de justice
International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia Case Law/
Tribunal Pénal International
pour l'Ex-Yougoslavie
The Court of Justice of the
European Communities Case Law/
Jurisprudence de la Cour de
Justice des Communautés Européennes
Case law from the European
Court of human rights/
Jurisprudence de la Cour Européenne
des Droits de l 'Homme
United States Historic Court Decicions
(1803- 1978)
The
Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations
of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992:provided
by the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, in cooperation with
the U.S. Senate and Government Printing Office (GPO). The volume is both searchable
and browsable, and contains annotated references to Supreme Court decisions
in their constitutional context. It is arranged by article and amendment and
is available in both plain-text and Adobe Acrobat (pdf) formats.
Supreme Court Opinions,
1937-Present:
Cases are browsable by volume number or year; searchable by citation, title
and full text of the opinions; and also include hypertext links. On the Findlaw
site, maintained by the Northern California Assn. of Law Librarians.
Supreme
Court Decisions, 1937-1975:
Full text of decisions, searchable, at the Government Printing Office's web
site. "The database is made available to the public as a finding aid to
the 'official' version in the United States Reports, therefore, GPO does not
guarantee the authenticity or completeness of the data."
U.S.
SUPREME COURT Opinions
Conseil
Consitutionnel: décisions (France)
ARMED
CONFLICTS
Contemporary conflicts
in Africa
Armed
Conflict in the World today: a country by country review
Parliamentary Human Rights Group (UK)
The Study of Armed Conflicts and their Prevention (SIPRI)
PEACE
& PEACEKEEPING
Peacekeeping,
Use of Force, War and Armed Conflict
Electronic Book by Düsseldorf University
Peace and Conflict Resolution: The World Wide Web Virtual Library
Operations de maintien de la paix achevés
L’Organisation
de l’Unité Africaine et la gestion des conflits internes
Thèse- Université Paris X
HUMAN
RIGHTS, MINORITIES & REFUGEES
Project Diana: Online Human Rights Archives
(Yale University)
Human Rights Internet
The Human Rights Web Res
Human Rights -
U.S. Information Agency
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Union interafricaine des droits de
l'homme (UIDH)
African Human Rights
Resource Center
The Human Rights Law Service
- Nigeria
Africa
South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources - Human Rights
Human
Rights booklet on-line (Council of Europe)
WAR CRIMES & GENOCIDES
The Accused of the Nuremberg Trial and the Judgments
(Avalon Project)
The Cambodian Genocide Program by the University of Yale
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General
Assembly on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.
Crime
of War Project
The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers, and
scholars that seeks to raise awareness of the laws of war and of the human consequences
when armed conflict becomes entrenched
Prevent Genocide International is the global education project of Genocide Watch: international campaign to end genocide
Stockholm
Accords on Ethnic Cleansing
War Crimes Tribunal Watch
War and Crime in Chechnya: An open letter from the Chechnya Committees of France to the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
War Crimes in Croatia
and Bosnia Herzegovina
HISTORY,
POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & DIPLOMACY
The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
Resources
Embassy Page, The
"The Embassy Page" is a comprehensive worldwide directory of diplomatic
representations
Liste de chefs d'Etats
et de Gouvernements
Social Science Information Gateway: International Relations Internet Resources
RWANDA,
GREAT LAKES REGION & OTHER COUNTRIES
Crisis in the Great
Lakes Region
Rwanda
Constitution of Rwanda
General Data on Rwanda
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices-2000
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-February 2001
Burundi
General Data on Burundi
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2000
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-February 2001
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
General Data on Democratic
Republic of Congo
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2000
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-February 2001
UNITED
NATIONS, OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION & NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
United
Nations
United Nations System
Briefing Book on
International Organizations in Geneva
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
Other International Organizations
Council
of Europe
European Commission
European University Institute (EUI)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies
International Green Cross
Interpol
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe
Organization of American States
Western European
Union
Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs)
Amnesty
International
European University Institute (EUI)
Fédération internationale des ligues
des droits de l'homme (FIDH)
Juristes sans frontières
Human Rights Watch
Coalition for International Justice
LEGAL LIBRARIES
& INFORMATION CENTRES
University of Southern
California Law Library - International and Foreign Legal Materials Links
to websites concerning periodicals, environmental law, international organization,
foreign relations.
National Library Catalogues Worldwide
RERO (Network Libraries of Western Switzerland)
UNOG Library
MPI International
Law:Library
Library of Congress Home Page
Swiss Libraries Homepage
The United Nations University
Library (Japan)
The Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Centre for Documentation and Research
(Geneva, Switzerland)
National Library Catalogues Worldwide
Libweb - Library WWW Server
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